Daily Archives: September 30, 2011

DedicatedNOW, announced the release of their much anticipated SAN storage solution. The engineering team at parent company FortressITX, has laboured over the Company’s SAN technology for the past 18 months to create a storage compliment for their private cloud platform.

“Our SAN infrastructure is an open book – easy to read, but next to impossible to duplicate,” says Jason Silverglate, CEO and chief architect of the company’s storage solution. Silverglate says that his SAN was designed to deliver industry-leading performance with a high-level of reliability. The SAN’s design includes redundant head nodes with redundant 10Gbps cards and redundant SAS 6Gbps wide internal SAS paths. The end result is two highly capable volumes that can achieve extremely high read and write speeds.

Jason remarks, “on Volume 1 we are able to achieve 1600MB/s read and 1300MB/s write. Mind you, Volume1 is our low performance Volume… Volume 2, which is our SSD volume can achieve 250,000 IOPS and can easily max out a few 10Gbps circuits.”

That speed makes all the difference when it comes to cloud purposed storage and that is what Jason and his team are counting on. Earlier this year, DedicatedNOW partnered with OnApp to launch a managed private cloud solution. The DedicatedNOW private cloud solution allows customers to configure and deploy scalable, redundant hypervisors onto the SAN, connected through a redundant switch stack via multiple gigabit connections both to the Internet and The Company’s own internal SAN network.

DedicatedNOW is preparing for the launch of their public cloud offering and anticipate the release of that product later this year.

About DedicatedNOW.com
DedicatedNOW, provides managed dedicated servers and complex hosting solutions to customers in nearly 100 countries. More information about DedicatedNOW’s private cloud and SAN technology is available on their website at http://cloud.dedicatednow.com.

Voxel today announced it will expand its Asian hosting capacity.

Voxel has acquired an 1,800-square foot private datacenter suite from global telecommunications provider KDDI, located near Singapore’s Changi Airport. The additional space significantly expands Voxel’s Singapore presence and will serve as a hub for a new dark fiber ring to connect its existing data center location at Equinix (SG1), the KDDI facility, and other major carrier hotels including Global Switch and Keppel Digihub facilities. The ring will be lit with 80x10G waves of capacity, provide fully diverse paths and allow for non-disruptive future capacity upgrades.

“We’re very excited to be expanding our presence in Singapore and investing further in the Southeast Asia region,” said Raj Dutt, founder and CTO of Voxel dot Net. “This new data center allows Voxel to provision over 2,000 additional servers, strengthens our service offering with redundancy and D.R. solutions, and adds co-location and security-enhanced hosting to our product set. Our Singapore facility is ideally situated not only for Singapore based businesses but for customers in the wider region, including Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines.”

“We’ve seen continuously strong demand for our managed hosting and cloud solutions out of Singapore, with the region now accounting for nearly 30 percent of our new sales,” said Raul Martynek, CEO of Voxel dot Net. “We’re excited to be providing world-class, automated infrastructure and content delivery at competitive price points in Asia. By adding high-capacity metro transport within Singapore, we aim to enable even more customers to host their content and deliver mission-critical applications over the Voxel network.”

Voxel’s expansion at the KDDI data center follows growth in other global facilities, including New York, Amsterdam, San Jose, and its original Singapore site. Voxel leverages an ultra-efficient pod design that allows for high-availability, quick turn up time and unified product features between global markets. The facility will be activated early in the fourth quarter of 2011.

About Voxel dot Net Inc.
Voxel (http://www.voxel.net) delivers high-performance Internet infrastructure that is scalable, fully-supported and cost-effective. The company offers industry leading hosting services via VoxSTRUCTURE, its open Infrastructure automation platform, and its unique Universal Transfer bandwidth aggregation model. Services include on-demand dedicated and virtual cloud servers, the VoxCAST Global Content Delivery Network (CDN), and a full suite of managed services for complex hosting deployments. The company is headquartered in New York City and maintains strategic global hosting and network points of presence across the globe.